<div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I should have added a further credit:<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">...and Eugene Chan who collected numbers 1-10 for almost all<BR>Austronesian and Papuan systems as shown at: <o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A href="http://zompist.com/numbers.shtml">http://zompist.com/numbers.shtml</A> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">and really started me on this quixotic exercise<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt;
FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">and corrected:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Manus, for instance, has almost the ‘true' PAn constructions, but<BR>greatly abbreviated: (Andra-Hus sanguh -10, lunguh – 20).<BR><BR>But </SPAN><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">New Ireland</SPAN></st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> (Barok – sangaun, dura sangaun – 2-10) and </SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">New Britain</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> do not (Gimi – sungul, sungul kiep 10-2), and nor
does most of mainland </SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">New Guinea</SPAN></st1:place></st1:country-region><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The </SPAN><st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">New Ireland</SPAN></st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> constructions appear to show the wave of Polynesian ‘boat in and leave’ habit, that took wives and numbers out to Furthest Oceania. (Or perhaps it was the other way round - see Per Hage' s various papers on kinship systems).</SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Regards<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Richard</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></SPAN></div>